Aberdeen 2-0 Saints

Last updated : 11 November 2008 By Stuart Gillespie

To make things worse, we've only taken one point from our last four games and could very well be bottom of the league by the end of tomorrow. With tough games against the Old Firm coming up our chances of ending our winless and goalless runs don't look like ending any time soon.

Manager Gus MacPherson did make some changes to the side tonight, bringing Andy Dorman back in at the expense of Garry Brady. Dorman's return was welcome - although it seems he had a shocker - but why drop Brady? He's arguably been our best player this season so why is he kicked out of the team?

The two other changes to the team were slightly mad as well. Dennis Wyness was dropped - which is fair enough as he's been awful - and he was replaced with Jim Hamilton. Our crosses are awful so we play two big players. Brilliant. Then we go and drop one of the players who can cross the ball (sometimes) by putting Steven Robb on the bench and bringing in Scott Cuthbert as we switched to a 3-5-2. Robb and Franco Miranda have been linking up well in recent weeks and if one was to be dropped it should have been Miranda as he has made some mistakes.

From the radio report, it sounds like a pretty rubbish game. Aberdeen scored with ten minutes remaining when Considine netted Mark Kerr's cross and Aluko grabbed the second in the final few minutes after Saints pushed for an equaliser. A bit of a waste of time that as it would never have come.

It seems we were fine up until the final third. This is a constant problem and one that has to get sorted quickly. As soon as a team scores, we're done for. We are so lacking in some sort of threat up front it is unreal. Defences and keepers have never had it so good and tonight seems like yet another example of that.

Something needs to be done to sort that out or else we will be in even bigger trouble than we're already in. MacPherson needs to turn things around, otherwise the pressure that had built up on him before the Rangers game will quickly reappear.